Not only would printing the downloaded manual be a violation of copyright law, it would be quite expensive! Making a one-off copy of ANYTHING is expensive.

Copy shops charge by the page. Printing an 800+ page manual for a typical new camera would be quite pricey — as much as $.25 per page!

I don't know anyone who would print a single copy of a 5.51”X7.78” document, with custom paper cover and binding, at a reasonable cost.

Printing manuals that size is usually done on large sheet-fed litho presses, in large quantities of multi-page signatures that are printed on both sides, in a page order that becomes consecutive when the press sheet is folded, bound with other signatures, trimmed on three sides, and then glued or sewn into a cover. Local office quick printing shops don't do that sort of thing. They print on sheets of 8.5x11 inch or 11x17 inch paper (USA standards), and use spiral or GBC binding to hold the pages together. They use the same sorts of equipment you would find in a large corporate office, typically large xerographic or electrostatic printers or copiers with digital raster image processors attached to them.

In short, you could probably buy a used iPad for less than it would cost to get a rather unwieldy and illegal copy of a PDF camera manual. PDF files are generally searchable and much easier to use than paper ones.

Has anyone printed a copy of their camera reference manual?

I know the majority of today’s photographers prefer the electronic copy, especially in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format, but I would like a printed manual.

Print copies are available on eBay, but they are printed on 8.5”X11” paper – the manual format appears to be 5.51”X7.78”. In addition to the paper size, I would also like to select the paper for the cover and pages as well as the binding -- considering cost options.

I took the file to an office supply store, but they would not print it.